> They're probably being paid for it and their examples and demos are clearly cherry picked.

This is a hefty and ungrounded accusation. You get access to the API by sending an email with a use-case; this has been said independently by multiple people, eg. [1]. Gwern has also commented that you don't have to cherry pick nearly as much as you did for GPT-2; a decent fraction of samples are simply good.

One of the key points of OpenAI API is that they can vet users to prevent abuses like malicious bots and spam.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/hs9zqo/p_g...